cento for loveApril 3, 2014: written for a performance with Dohee Lee and Simon Pettet on March 28, 2014 Poetry is not for the passive. It is, as Mayakovsky knew, at its very heart tendentious. Even the love poem agitates the [...]by Stephanie Young

My Poetry Picks for 2013December 18, 2013: These five books got under my skin. They are not books you read once with admiration but that later end up in your basement. They are also not new books in the conventional sense, except for Kate [...]by Idra Novey

Happy Birthday Nikky Finney!August 26, 2013: We’d like to wish one of our favorite American poets, Nikky Finney, a very happy birthday today. In addition to Head Off & Split, Finney’s books of poetry include On Wings Made of Gauze [...]by Harriet Staff

The Audience is Present (Part II)April 9, 2013: In the last week of March, Nikky Finney and Lizz Wright performed together for a packed auditorium at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Nikky opened the evening with a handful of [...]by Evie Shockley

New to the ArchiveJanuary 8, 2013: Let’s crack into the stacks to see what’s been added to the online archive since we last checked in. Joining the archive (yes, that’s a ligature pun) are a heap of poems by Forrest [...]by Harriet Staff